my hat is always off to you classic tyers...such an art form for sure...and it is one of the foundation stones of our pursuit as anglers...

I do make my own rods...especially from bamboo...my flies are strictly for fishing...but do qualify as big streamers...I am working on tying some of the classic patterns...but it is a work in progress...

here are a few tie's from homegrown materials(from harvests or my ranch)

all work well for big trout and other species as well...when they are wet and moving they look a bit different...I am tying up some articulated ones too...

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public water 20"er
public land pope & young

Breac à linne, slat à coille is fiadh à fìreach - mèirle às nach do ghabh gàidheal riamh nàire. a fish from the river, a rod from the woods and a stag from the mountain , thefts ne'er a Gael was ashamed
...and old gaelic proverb...

Hey Guyes, my first post on the board, and love all the pictures you post of you flies, nice inspiration to us new guys.

I haven't fly fished mutch, when i was 12 years old i got a "beginners #7 fly rod setup" and the family went to a fishing camp where there were some fly theme weekend where people could learn to cast, an tie flies, i managed to catch some small brown trout, with my truly poor casting technique. After that i have't fly fished sins, now that i'm 24, and love pike fishing in Denmark, i found a great fishing buddy, who fly fished for over 20 years. We started practice in the garden, and it kept getting better and better. So i decsidet to go all in on the fly fishing for pike, and i´m currently waiting for my #10 rod.

But while i'm waiting i started tying some BIG flies. This is some of the first bigger pike flies iv'e made, getting some help and ideas from YouTube.

Hope you like them

Had to untie some of them halfway and start over as they didn’t looked like i wanted them to.

Kind regards Bjarke.
Tight lines.

First of a longer flash fly than I made before, as I saw my buddys in the water and the long tail looked amazing.

Those are some great patterns you have there, all of which would surely have a place in my esox boxes.

One material I didn't see utilized in any of your patterns is bucktail. Other than flashabou, my number one material in my musky and pike flies is bucktail. If you can get your hands on some quality bucktail (which means having to go to the fly shops and taking each one out of the bag), you will like what you can do with it. It will also open up a broad range of new flies for you to tie. It's movement on big flies is nearly unbeatable, and is lightweight and easy to cast.

Check out this two part video for a good example of what I'm talking about.